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Sunday Apr 29, 2012 #
Orienteering race 1:42:53 15.27 km (6:44 / km) +600m 5:38 / km
shoes: O-Icebug Sisu 10.5
A solid, and really fun day, at the Billygoat.
Right out of the start, in perhaps 30th place, the blistering pace really threw me off. Unlike last year, when I hung with leaders for almost 20 minutes, in 4th place when I lost them, they were out of sight in 5 minutes this year, with me probably in 20-25th place at the time.
So I figured it wouldn't be my day physically.
But then at least the technical effort worked out pretty good, and waaay better than last year... This being orienteering, there's always something you can do better technically - this year the correct fork that I almost took, the trail down to 16 that I didn't see on the map, but all in all, those weren't too bad, and I managed to pull up to 6th place in doing so, dropping back to 8th as Nick & Francis outran me around the easy loop at the bottom, while I fought lead legs.
Way impressed by Ali C. A major scalping (6%) when I had a solid orienteering result is amazing. Seems like some world-class woman is visiting the US or something... Well done.
Right out of the start, in perhaps 30th place, the blistering pace really threw me off. Unlike last year, when I hung with leaders for almost 20 minutes, in 4th place when I lost them, they were out of sight in 5 minutes this year, with me probably in 20-25th place at the time.
So I figured it wouldn't be my day physically.
But then at least the technical effort worked out pretty good, and waaay better than last year... This being orienteering, there's always something you can do better technically - this year the correct fork that I almost took, the trail down to 16 that I didn't see on the map, but all in all, those weren't too bad, and I managed to pull up to 6th place in doing so, dropping back to 8th as Nick & Francis outran me around the easy loop at the bottom, while I fought lead legs.
Way impressed by Ali C. A major scalping (6%) when I had a solid orienteering result is amazing. Seems like some world-class woman is visiting the US or something... Well done.
Running warm up/down 10:00 [2] 1.3 km (7:42 / km) +40m 6:40 / km
shoes: O-Icebug Sisu 10.5
Warmup b4 Billygoat, in bits & pieces, incl. the steep jog/walk up to the start